May 03, 2008

quiet courage, patient hope,

and unshaken trust

"Grant unto us, Almighty God,

in all time of sore distress,

the comfort of the forgiveness of our sins.

In time of darkness

give us blessed hope,

in time of sickness of body

give us quiet courage;

and when the heart is bowed down,

and the soul is very heavy,

and life is a burden,

and pleasure a weariness,

and the sun is too bright,

and life too mirthful,

then may that Spirit,

the Spirit of the Comforter,

come upon us,

and after our darkness

may there be the clear shining

of the heavenly light;

that so, being uplifted again by Thy mercy,

we may pass on through this our mortal life

with quiet courage, patient hope, and unshaken trust,

hoping through Thy loving-kindness and tender mercy

to be delivered from death

into the large life of the eternal years.

Hear us of Thy mercy,

through Jesus Christ our LordAmen."

- George Dawson